The Atheist's Way: Living Well Without Gods by Eric Maisel

Author:Eric Maisel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Novel
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2010-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Countless people suffer from meaning crises. They’ve gotten a whiff of meaninglessness and don’t know where to turn to find meaning. If they land on any answer, it is often in the territory of the supernatural: they imagine that their best bet is to renew their faith, switch churches, consult a psychic, pull out a Tarot deck, keep kosher, confess, atone, pray harder. But all that proves cold comfort. In his book Existential Psychotherapy, existential psychotherapist Irvin Yalom used the following anonymous suicide note as an epigraph to a chapter on meaninglessness. The despairing suicide wrote:

Imagine a happy group of morons who are engaged in work. They are carrying bricks in an open field. As soon as they’ve stacked all the bricks at one end of the field, they proceed to transport them to the opposite end. This continues without stop. Every day of every year they are busy doing the same thing. One day one of the morons stops long enough to ask himself what he is doing. He wonders what purpose there is in carrying the bricks. And from that instant on he is not quite as content with his occupation as he had been before. I am the moron who wonders why he is carrying the bricks.1

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